So could "peter" have written much of anything? If he existed? No.
So the only way that this peter character could have written anything is if he did not exist. That way, the authors who created him can make him do whatever the fuck they wanted him to do.
Xristards, decide how you want it.
Quote:Was Peter among the very upper echelons of the educated elite of Palestine who could
compose letter-essays in Greek? Apart from the legendary accounts I have mentioned, all we know about Peter’s life comes to
us from the New Testament. What we principally learn about him is that before he was a follower of Jesus he was a fisherman
from Capernaum in Galilee.
In order to evaluate Peter’s linguistic abilities, the place to begin, then, is with Capernaum. A full summary of what we know
about Capernaum from Peter’s day is provided by an American archaeologist of Palestine, Jonathan Reed.28 On the basis of archaeological
digs and historical sources, it is clear that Capernaum was a historically insignificant village in rural Galilee. It is never mentioned in any ancient source prior to the Gospels. It is scarcely mentioned by any sources after that. It was discovered by archaeologists in the nineteenth century and has been excavated
since then. In the time of Jesus it may have had anywhere between six and fifteen hundred inhabitants, so say a thousand. The archaeological digs have revealed no evidence of any public buildings whatsoever, such as shops or storage facilities. The market for buying food and other necessities must have been
held in tents or booths in open unpaved public areas. The town is on none of the major international trade routes. The Roman roads in the area date from a hundred years after Peter’s life.
There is no trace of any pagan or Gentile population in the town. There are no inscriptions of any kind on any of the buildings.
Reed concludes that the inhabitants were almost certainly “predominantly illiterate.” Archaeologists have found no building
structures or materials associated with social elites from the first century (e.g., plaster surfaces, decorative frescoes, marble, mosaics,
red ceramic roof tiles). The houses were roughly constructed out of stone basalt, and mud or clay was used to fill in the gaps;
they probably had thatched roofs. In short, Peter’s town was a backwoods Jewish village made up of hand-to-mouth laborers who did not have an education.
Everyone spoke Aramaic. Nothing suggests that anyone could speak Greek. Nothing suggests that anyone in town could write. As a lower-class fisherman, Peter would have started work as a young boy and never attended school. There was, in fact, probably no school there; if there was a school, he probably didn’t attend; if he did attend, it would have been in order to receive rudimentary training in how to read Hebrew. But that almost certainly never happened. Peter was an illiterate peasant.
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So the only way that this peter character could have written anything is if he did not exist. That way, the authors who created him can make him do whatever the fuck they wanted him to do.
Xristards, decide how you want it.
